Calvin Coolidge
(1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
“For the truth is that our doctrines are usually only the justification a posteriori of our conduct, or else they are our way of trying to explain that conduct to ourselves.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VI : In the Depths of the Abyss
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